Morning Dendro! I posted a trich pic of my photo-auto grow on the bottom of this post in My second season of outdoor growing - #54 by FieldEffect I’ll be posting there again tomorrow with an overall update, and chop pics from the Critical Kush auto that’s getting all ambered up.
You’re a lot deeper in this than I am, and certainly don’t read your posts as being disagreeable. At all. This is all relatively new to me, and regardless of what I know, what I think is usually a combination of many things that I’ve read but like anything I have to see it first to actually validate my opinion and turn it into something I “know.”
To be clear I think the progression between a Photo (AA) x Auto (aa) would be:
F1: (Aa) Uniformly non-auto, but the auto gene is partially shaded by the photo gene
F2: 1/4 regular photo (AA), 1/4 auto (aa), and 1/2 non-auto as per F1 generation (Aa)
F3+ (of two of the F2 full autos): Uniformly aa
It seems evident to me that it’s not as simple as a single genomic trait. It may well often manifest that way, but the evidence in my backyard is encouraging. I think there are going to be good potential crosses from the first hybrid level, I just wouldn’t expect anything full and consistently auto until F2-3 (pretty sure we fully agree there).
I’m hoping the Hella Jelly gets me somewhere close to the bag I got a long time ago, it has similiar lineage and published effects. We’ll see soon 
I’m interested in these crosses. Particularly the Banana OG stuff. I guess we’ll find out next season, and this is one of the several reasons to grow indoors…impatience 
Gotta run, time to get ready for work. Friday-Sunday weekend and garden time is almost here